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The Truth is Out There
Author: Douglas A. Alderson, MA (Toronto), LLM (Yale) Tales of abused and missing children naturally tug on the heart strings and engender feelings of outrage and sympathy: outrage at the perpetrators; sympathy for the victims and their families. Our natural sympathies, however, are being manipulated and abused [...]
A Profound Lack of Understanding and Indifference
Author: Douglas A. Alderson, MA, LLM (Yale) At a recent press conference in June of 2024, Chief justice Richard Wagner of Canada’s Supreme Court expressed his concern for the “harm caused when court decisions are reported inaccurately, or out of context, for reasons of “sensationalism.” The Chief [...]
Speech: G K Chesterton Academy Address, June 29, 2024, St George’s Parish
By: Diane Watts, Researcher, REAL Women of Canada Thank you, it’s a privilege to be here. And I congratulate the graduating students and all those who had the wisdom to provide you with a Catholic education. When I asked my colleagues for ideas for this talk, I was [...]
Whither Judeo-Christian Values?
By Douglas Alderson There is much talk these days of “Judeo-Christian values”, those values which underlie Western Civilization and make our political/social order of individual rights and democratic institutions possible. There is no denying that Judeo-Christian values are “biblical values” being derived from the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh—what [...]
Hate Speech vs. Love Talk
The recent introduction of Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has focused attention on hate and its supposed attempted regulation. While much well-deserved attention and criticism of Bill C-63 has been aimed at the Bill’s draconian censorship mechanisms and bureaucratic empire building, there as yet appears to be [...]
Garbage dump politics continues to stink in Manitoba
This article was originally published by Western standard on January 22, 2024 By Hymie Rubenstein Winnipeg police say Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, and a fourth unidentified woman the community has named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, were all the victims of an alleged serial killer.Western Standard [...]